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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18544 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-02-23
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 400 minutes

DVD Description
From the gentle turquoise seas of the Caribbean to the icy-cold Arctic, an international team of underwater explorers reveal the secrets and stories of our oceans.

A team of intrepid adventurers – explorer and expedition leader Paul Rose, maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue, marine biologist Tooni Mahto and conservationist Philippe Cousteau Jnr, grandson of Jacques Cousteau – undertake a journey to discover the world beneath the waves. Each mission sees the experts living together on a dive boat and shows the disappointments and dangers they face as well as the successes of each trip. Diving in some of the planet’s most challenging environments, beneath frozen Arctic ice-sheets, the Caribbean’s mysterious black holes and the deep submerged caves of Mallorca they reveal new mysteries about our oceans.

They come across incredible creatures such as the fearsome Humboldt squid and the six gill shark and encounter stunning corals and illuminating shipwrecks.

Packed with engaging personalities, amazing discoveries and unbeatable adventure, this series builds a vital understanding of the planet’s biggest and least understood asset – its oceans.

Synopsis
Stunning BBC series that explores the hidden depths of our world's seas: nature's last true wilderness. Among the eight episodes of this series are: 'The Indian Ocean', 'The Atlantic Ocean', 'The Red Sea', 'The Sea Of Cortez' and 'The Mediterranean Sea'.

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Customer Reviews

Beautiful photography
I totally disagree with Jonas's review. There is some beautiful film photography and the science is good. A great nature programme from the BBC as usual. A couple of annoying people in the team stop it from getting 5 stars.

Spectacular DVD!!!

The guy who gave this only one Star is a complete idiot as far as im concerned. The preparation that went into this series must have been immense, each episode offers some remarkable and break through glimpses into new areas of Marine Science as well as having some stunning footage of nearly all the worlds Oceans. From rare and strange creatures and bizarre marine habitats, I really envy these guys being able to have a "gap year" (as the one star rated guy put it) being able to travel around studying and obviously having the time of their lives with the BBC studying these unique areas, they even dive into a fissure and witness the birth of a new Ocean, albeit millions of years from now. This DVD is crystal clarity and upscaled really well to near HD quality on my Sony S350 Blu ray DVD player. I could almost reach out and touch the divers at one point. The only reason I bought this DVD is that I missed the whole series when it was on television but it was really worth the buy. My favorite footage has to be of the "6 Gill Shark". One of the team members Philippe Cousteau is the actual Grand Son of the famous Ocean Pioneer Jacque Cousteau. How cool is that! These people seem to have some well grounded credentials and are what I would term true Scientists contrary to what some have already said. Its really interesting to see what has happened to our Oceans, due not only to Global Warming, but mans intervention, over fishing etc, but it seems our Oceans are more resilient than we think and are already starting to show remarkable change and adaption. Spectacular DVD!!!

A fantastic series
I too disagree with Jonas and found it informative and interesting. It was intriguing to watch the team dive into waters that are rarely shown, such as the hole in the middle of nowhere where the conditions of the water were just like they would have been millions of years ago, and the under-ice dive, amongst others.
As a student of the OU science programme at the time when I was watching it, I felt there was a good level of science in it which backed up what I had been learning, without it being too wordy or too high brow for others to understand. It shows some of the trials of research and some of the technology behind the research but best of all, the characters of the people involved really shone through.

There are some beautiful shots and whereas the Blue Planet is probably better if you want to stare at pretty pictures of the underwater world, the Oceans series really shows the fragility and resilience of the oceans and its creatures, but also its diversity, and their importance in the world, in an entertaining and fascinating way.

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys diving, or has an interest in wildlife documentaries, and the ocean in general.